From Deseret News archives:
Another Flyer home win
The NHL-leading Flyers are 12-0-2 at the Wachovia Center this season, the only team unbeaten at home.
Branko Radivojevic and Andrei Nazarov scored for the Coyotes, who were unbeaten in their last four games.
Robert Esche stopped 18 shots to beat his former team and improve to 8-2-2. Former Flyers goaltender Sean Burke had 28 saves for the Coyotes.
Amonte gave Philadelphia a 2-1 lead midway through the second period with his ninth goal. Jeremy Roenick set it up with a crisp cross-ice pass to Amonte, who slapped it past Burke.
Amonte and Roenick also are former Coyotes. Roenick signed with the Flyers as a free agent in 2001. Amonte came over in a deal last March. Esche was traded here before last season.
LeClair gave the Flyers a 3-1 lead on a power-play goal 1:18 into the third period. He redirected a pass from Michal Handzus between Burke's legs.
But Nazarov cut it to 3-2 with his first goal just 16 seconds later.
Esche kept it there with a nice save, smothering a shot by Chris Gratton, who also once played for the Flyers, with 27 seconds left.
The Coyotes took a 1-0 lead on Radivojevic's goal with 12 seconds left in the first period. Paul Mara took a pass from Brian Savage, held the puck then slid a pass to Radivojevic, who one-timed it past Esche for his seventh goal.
Vandermeer tied it at 1 just 2:59 into the second period with his first goal of the season. He one-timed a pass from Justin Williams just inside the left post.
HURRICANES 1, CANADIENS 1: At Raleigh, N.C., Mike Ribeiro scored a power-play goal with less than six minutes remaining to rally Montreal.
Jose Theodore stopped 36 shots for Montreal, which is unbeaten is four straight (2-0-2).
Kevyn Adams scored a short-handed goal for Carolina, which picked up four of a possible six points in a three-game homestand.
Yanic Perreault hit the post early in overtime for Montreal in the best scoring opportunity of the extra period.
Theodore also swept away a deflected shot from the goal mouth with one minute left.
Ribeiro scored his fourth goal with 5:49 left in the third period, converting a rebound of a shot by Pierre Dagenais.
Carolina dominated most of the game, but the Hurricanes were 0-for-6 on the power play through two periods.
THRASHERS 6, MIGHTY DUCKS 2: At Atlanta, Marc Savard scored two goals and Byron Dafoe made 35 saves in his first victory in 10 months as Atlanta picked up just its second victory in six games.
Slava Kozlov scored and assisted on three other goals for the Thrashers. J.P. Vigier, Jeff Cowan and Serge Aubin also had goals for Atlanta.
The lone bright spot was Anaheim was Joffrey Lupul, who scored twice.
